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Show into a type of somewha in huma life never loses its power to affect us. It is thi which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman which all me relish Thus is nature an interpreter, by whos means man converses with his fellow men A man's power to connect his though with its proper symbol, and so utter it depends on the simplicity of his character that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. Th corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language » When simplicity o character and the sovereignty of ideas i broken up by the prevalence of secondar desires, the desire of riches, the desire o pleasure, the desire of power, the desire o praise,-and duplicity and falsehood tak place of simplicity and truth, the powe over nature as an interprete in a degree lost; new imager created, and old words ar stand for things which ar of the will, i ceases to b perverted t not; a pape currency is employed when there is n bullion in the vaults. In due time, the frau is manifest, and words lose all power t stimulate the understanding or the affec 3 of Utah. A rights reserved. |